'angel Heart' Was One Of My Favorite

It Would Be Nice To Make A Movie That Other People Want To Make, Because Every One Of These Movies, I Basically Have To Find The Only Company In The World That's Willing To Make It, And It's Always A Big Challenge. I End Up Spending A Tremendous Amount Of Energy And Time Trying To Get Money To Make These Movies And It's Exhausting.

Turning 30 Was When My Parents Both Got Cancer And Were Fighting It And Beat It, But Their Mortality Started To Get To Me. Everything Wasn't As Hunky-dory Like It Was.

I've Always Wanted To Introduce Hip-hop Filmmaking To Film. There's Hip-hop Art, Dance, Music, But There Really Isn't Hip-hop Film. So I Was Trying To Do That.

I'm Godless. I've Had To Make My God, And My God Is Narrative Filmmaking

In Seventh Grade I Had A Magical Teacher, Her Name Was Mrs. Fried. She Wore Only Pink, She Drove A Pink Mustang, And She Was Half Out Of Her Head. But Very Inspiring. And One Day She Said, "take Out A Paper And Pen And Write Something About Peace." For Some Reason I Wrote A Poem On Noah - I Don't Know Why I Chose Noah - And It Turned Out It Was For A Contest For The Un. I Ended Up Winning And Reading The Poem In Front Of The Un. I Remember Mrs. Fried Telling Me, "when You Write Your First Book, Dedicate It To Me." That Was Like, "whoa."